Sunday Post Sports Crossword 04 January

[Puzzled!]

Last few, and help needed, please!

3d. Play baseball, get a life! (6) i-n-n-

48d. It's not the fault of the quarter-back that he is the leader of this in the NFL (7) o---n-e

56a. It was revealed Mrs Ferdinand's pet name for little Rio (5) ----i

67a. It was how MP Jack Straw described his feelings towards the recent results of Blackburn Rovers (7)
-n-a -p- (UNHAPPY?)

44d. How Paul Ince described his friend Roy Keane on his departure from Sunderland. (9) s-a-e-o-t (SPACEDOUT?)

and

88a. Not the sort of pass to finish off the opposition in the Super-Bowl. (12) -n-o-p-e---n

Thanks everyone!
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[dr b]

48d, offense
88a, incompletion

[dr b]

3d, INNING fits the letters but don't quite see how it fits the clue!

[JandyAF]

44d. ?scapegoat?

[Puzzled!]

Thanks, that's a much better answer than mine!